It certainly is that time again, long overdue, to feature what the ND photographers have been up to, covering all the branches of roots music, including several legends. Plus, there are a few photos this week that view artists in […]
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My past few columns have been themed around a certain subject or type of artist. This wasn’t intentional. Instead, it seemed that once I found one Christmas album or EP release, I found two, then three, and then I had […]
This month, longtime friends and musical collaborators Rodney Crowell and Vince Gill release new albums within a week of each other. Each album takes its title from the singer’s home state: Crowell’s Texas is out today and Gill’s Okie lands […]
Like so many other music fans, each week I look forward to searching, discovering, and devouring new music that is released every Friday. It’s a longtime habit from when I was in my early teens, but now, instead of visiting […]
Fifty years ago today, a little past five in the afternoon, on a stage planned and lit by E.H. Beresford “Chip” Monck, who introduced him, Richie Havens found himself the surprise opening act of “An Aquarian Exposition” presented by the […]
A few years ago, Ray Wylie Hubbard reflected on his life and the evolution of his songwriting and music in a humorous, candid, and cinematic memoir a life … well, lived (Bordello Records). He told the now-famous story — which […]
Turn your radio to a country music station, and you’re likely to hear the lilting sounds of a pedal steel. It’s a sound iconic to the genre, so ubiquitous that it’s probably permeated your idea of what country music is […]
Generally when this column features a festival I talk about the music. But this time I’ll focus more on what it was like to be there. Given that Railbird is a first-time festival, held this past weekend on the back […]
In the American border town of Eagle Pass in the Rio Grande Valley, Rumel Fuentes was born in 1943. Attending the University of Texas in Austin in the ’60s, he was one of the Chicano movement’s brightest singer-songwriters, using his […]
If you want to get a feel for the wide range of sounds Che Apalache pours into its music, the title track from their new album, Rearrange My Heart, is a fine place to start. Opening as a hymn that […]
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